Stephen Crane: "The Open Boat" - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• pov: third-person omniscient

Question 2

the point of view of Stephen Crane’s story, “The Open Boat,” is

Answer 2

third person omniscient

Question 3

according to the narrator in paragraph 30 of “the open boat,” he thought of the gull landing on the captain’s head seemed to the crew to be

Answer 3

gruesome and ominous

Question 4

the “babes of the sea” that the narrator speaks of in paragraph 169 of “the open boat” are

Answer 4

the oiler and the cook

Question 5

the narrator refers to the dinghy in paragraph 30 of “the open boat” as a “frighted boat,” meaning, in this context,

Answer 5

a boat that is heavily laden

Question 6

the open boat of Stephen Crane’s story was compared in size to

Answer 6

a bathtub